pds.label
Class PDSUtil

java.lang.Object
  pds.label.PDSUtil

public class PDSUtil
extends java.lang.Object

PDSUtil is a class that contains utility methods which are useful for working with instances of PDSLabel and PDS labeled products.

Since:

1.0

Constructor Summary

PDSUtil()
Creates and instance of a PDSUtil

Method Summary

boolean	loadFile(java.lang.String pathName) Reads the contents of a file as a set of text strings terminated with a newline character.
void	pad(int length) Pad each line with spaces to the given length.
boolean	padFile(java.lang.String pathName, int length) Reads the contents of a file and pads each line to the have the given length.
void	trimRight() Trim any white space from the right side of each line.
boolean	writeFile(java.lang.String pathName) Writes the lines to a file.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

PDSUtil

public PDSUtil()

Creates and instance of a PDSUtil

Method Detail

padFile

public boolean padFile(java.lang.String pathName,
                       int length)

Reads the contents of a file and pads each line to the have the given length. Once the file is read and the lines padded, the new lines are written back to the same file. The length of the new lines includes the PDS standard line terminate which is the two byte sequence of carriage return and newline.

Parameters:

pathName - the fully qualified path and name of the file to parse.

length - the number of characters each line must have.

Returns:

true if the file could be opened; false otherwise.

Since:

1.0

pad

public void pad(int length)

Pad each line with spaces to the given length.

Parameters:

length - the number of characters each line must have.

Since:

1.0

trimRight

public void trimRight()

Trim any white space from the right side of each line.

Since:

1.0

loadFile

public boolean loadFile(java.lang.String pathName)

Reads the contents of a file as a set of text strings terminated with a newline character.

Parameters:

pathName - the fully qualified path and name of the file to parse.

Returns:

true if the file could be opened; false otherwise.

Since:

1.0

writeFile

public boolean writeFile(java.lang.String pathName)

Writes the lines to a file. When written ach line is terminated with the PDS newline convention (carriage return followed by newline)

Parameters:

pathName - the fully qualified path and name of the file to parse.

Returns:

true if the file could be opened; false otherwise.

Since:

1.0